Favorite Websites / Useful Information

PARENTING

• Consciously Parenting Project
  Providing education and support including excellent teleseminars
• Mothering Magazine
  Natural Birth and Parenting, search the site for pregnancy, birth and parenting related research
• Beyond Consequences Institute
  Love-Based Parenting Model for attachment, trauma  and other severe behavioral issues
• Zero to Three
  Leading Research on the first years of life
• Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children
  The art and science of nurturing children, including best practices for transforming the world via. how we raise children
• Natural Child
  Attachment and Natural parenting information and products
• Kindred
  The worlds first sustainable family living and natural parenting magazine
• No Punish
  Parenting without punishment
• Aware Parenting Institute
  Questions most traditional assumptions about raising children and can profoundly shift a parent's relationship with his/her child
• Post Institute
  Dr. Bryan Post's "Post Institute for Family-Centered Therapy" - Providing therapy, consultation, workshops and Parent and Family "boot camps" for families raising children with severe behaviors
• National Vaccine Information Center
  Information and research on vaccination 

PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH

• Om Baby Pregnancy and Parenting Center
  Om Baby offers support to women and their families for the childbearing year and beyond through a wide variety of classes and workshops.
• Mothering Magazine
  Natural Birth and Parenting, search the site for pregnancy, birth and parenting related research
• Birthing the Future
  Suzanne Arms Site - Birthing the Future
• HypnoBirthing
  Local Hypnobirthing classes and support (the Mongan Method)
• Calm Birth
  New Potential of Childbirth using Meditation Science
• Orgasmic Birth
  How birth and our experience of birth could be, if we had been socialized to view birth as Pleasure, Spirituality, and Empowerment, instead of the current paradigm of Fear and Pain!
• Childbirth awareness and alternative birth choices
• Science Based Birth
  Evidence-based obstetrics
• Birth without Boundaries
  Local (Central PA) alternative birth resources, support, advocacy and information
• Kelly Mom
  The most comprehensive information on breastfeeding 
• La Leche League
  International breastfeeding support with local chapters
•  Birth Psychology
  Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health
• CIMS
  Coalition for improving maternity services
• ICAN
  The International Cesarean awareness network - information and research on cesarean and VBAC 
• CRIP
  Circumcision Information and Resource Page
• NOCIRC
  National organization of Circumcision Information and Resource Center

TRAUMA

• Child Trauma Academy
  Information and resources related to trauma - online courses available
• David Baldwin's Trauma-pages
  Excellent trauma-related link
• Birth Psychology 
  Trauma-related to - before, during and after birth
• BEBA
  Building and enhancing bonding and attachment
  Info on resolving prenatal, birth and other early trauma
• Violence Research
  James Prescott, Origins of Peace and Violence Research
• Alice Miller
  Alice Miller's writings on Child Abuse and Mistreatment

ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE

• Adoption/Advocates
  Adoption Policy Resource Center
• Journey to Me
  Helping adopted children thrive

OTHER

• Dr Northrup  
  Dr. Northrup's (Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom) site - Empowering women with health information
• Self Growth
  On line self improvement Encyclopedia
• ClayFriends Pottery
  Beautiful site, beautiful artist - Pottery, Glass, Metals & Fibers
• BornSilks
  Store that sells silk baby caps/bonnets here in neighboring NJ. 
  They have many wonderful benefits nurturing babies naturally

CDS/DVDS

• Dr. Bryan Post’s Video/DVD/CD series available at www.postinstitute.com
   
• Beyond Consequences Resources at www.beyondconsequences.com
   
• Giving Birth: Challenges and Choices. Suzanne Arms (1998). Video. Injoy Productions, Boulder, CO available at www.birthingthefuture.com
   
• Trauma, Brain and Relationship: Helping Children Heal, put together by Santa Barbara Institute and Neurons to Neighborhoods Conferences available at www.TraumaResources.org
   
• What Babies Want: An Exploration of the Consciousness of Infants.  Documentary by Debby Takikawa, Narrated by Noah Wyle.  Available at Peace Works,  www.whatbabieswant.com

More about Pam and what she is learning from her
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